Actually, I also saw 'Robin Hood.' It was definitely an epic film but it was really dark and gloomy, so I wasn't as big of a fan of that."

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The god told Virgil that he wasn't ready yet for the manly, the adult, and the public world, the important world, of epic poetry.

神明告诉维吉尔，他还没有准备好接受，成人世界和公众世界，以及史诗的重要领域。

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So Milton implies to Diodati that he isn't yet up to the task of epic, but as he describes the Nativity Ode that he's just written, it's almost as if he considers it something of a mini-epic.

所以弥尔顿暗示迪奥达蒂自己还不能完成创作史诗的任务，但他提到了他刚写完的《圣诞清晨歌》,好像这就是一篇迷你史诗。

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He isn't yet able or he hasn't yet produced epic speech.

他还不能或没有创作出什么史诗语言。

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He didn't even begin to fulfill what we can think of as his epic promise until he was nearly fifty years old, until he had actually lost the use of his eyes, until he could no longer read, and until he could no longer use a pen to write.

但真正开始实行他要写史诗的愿望的时候,弥尔顿已经将近50岁了，那是他已经几乎,丧失了视力，不能再读书，不能执笔写作。

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